[relee]

I will try to catch an exact quote from the 4 PM CBS radio news. I believe he said the officials, (FBI, CIA, DHS) will review this specific information and may up the alert to red alert if necessary, or something like that.

[FairOpinion]

"I believe he said the officials, (FBI, CIA, DHS) will review this specific information and may up the alert to red alert if necessary, or something like that."

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What specific information? Please keep me from having to go back to read the past 450 posts to find out.

[freeperfromnj]

I believe he said the officials, (FBI, CIA, DHS) will review this specific information and may up the alert to red alert if necessary

Now that would definitely be a disturbing event. The country pretty much shuts down at code red. The fact that they raised it to orange after 7 months leads me to believe that they do indeed have very credible information this time. I can't see them putting the economic recovery on the line during the holidays unless there is a gneuine security risk.

[StarFan]

I will try to catch an exact quote from the 4 PM CBS radio news. I believe he said the officials, (FBI, CIA, DHS) will review this specific information and may up the alert to red alert if necessary, or something like that.

Who is he?

[Dont Mention the War]

Now that would definitely be a disturbing event. The country pretty much shuts down at code red.

The one thing about the news conference that disturbed me was when a reporter asked Ridge why, if they had such a substantial increase in credible information about potential attacks, they only jumped to orange instead of red. Ridge stood there, frozen, for a good five seconds or so, working over in his mind a perfectly formulated non-response response to the question before opening his mouth.

I couldn't help but be left with the inference that a jump straight to code red was given very serious consideration by these guys during those 72 hours of deliberation.